Tony Danza plays Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s father in Don Jon, and while I suspect he’s there mainly to provide Italian-guy cred to make it seem more okay that the rest of the non-Italian cast are basically doing blackface-level Italian impressions, as you can see in this special Father’s Day clip, he also seems to be displaying some long-forgotten acting chops. I’d be interested to see what the rest of the movie looks like, because in this 54-second clip, he crushes it.

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to “pull” a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she’s determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Let this be a lesson to all the young actors out there: If you work hard at your craft for years, gradually building respect starring in both crowd pleasers and indie darlings, eventually you too can write a movie about about a sex addict and cast yourself in it opposite Scarlett Johansson. Must be nice. How do you think he directs himself in those scenes anyway? “Guys? I think it’d be better in this scene if Don grabbed Barbara’s boob and gave it a sort of ‘honk-honk,’ you know? Like really groped her. And then she gets so hot she pulls his underpants down with her teeth.”

The Joisey/Outer Borough cartoon accents these actors are doing may be some of the worst ever. Scarlett Johansson’s is like what she thought the poors sounded like when she was living in the Village as a child.

I always find it hilarious when people from *insert area here* get bent out of shape when actors do their local accents in a movie and they’re so embarrassed by how trashy it sounds, they claim it’s “Terrible”.

I’m from Boston. People who grew up here, especially the lower classes, have the WORST accent in the world, and the “cartoon” accents you hear in movies like the Depahted are actually pretty fucking accurate.

I’ve also spent a considerable amount of time in NY/NJ for work. Lots of people absolutely do sound like these actors.

I can’t be the only one who thinks Johanssen is wildly overrated, can I? I know they’re intentionally going for the Jersey trash look here but it seems to really put her in her natural element. She ain’t bad, but really no better than hundreds of other Seacaucus strumpets.